[Neuroimaging] Journal articles based on PRs

[Chris Filo Gorgolewski]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 7:36 AM, Yaroslav Halchenko <lists at onerussian.com>
wrote:

>
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2016, Chris Filo Gorgolewski wrote:
> >    - There is one publication which makes citing easy (compare to
> >    Freesurfer
> https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/FreeSurferMethodsCitation,
> >    also consider that some journals limit the number of references)
> >    - There is no overhead of writing, submitting, and revising a
> manuscript
> >    on top of developing and revising code
>
> brief follow-up.  IMHO Zenodo solution is indeed great and I hope
> to do the same later on for our projects.  BUT I still think that
> ideally we should support "FreeSurfer"'s approach for citing relevant
> methods papers for specific algorithms/implementations.  That is why I
> would strongly encourage you to look/join our slowly moving
> http://duecredit.org effort.
>
> As for the number of references, I hope that such archaic demands would
> be relaxed soon(ish) and there are ongoing efforts:
> https://twitter.com/figgyjam/status/721755759449493505

Totally agree!


>
>
> >    There is, however, one big drawback - there is only one first and one
> >    senior author on the Zenodo handle. I think this calls for a hybrid
> >    solution: an always up to date Zenodo entry combined with individual
> >    papers written by developers who feel they need such publication and
> are
> >    willing to put the extra effort of writing the manuscript. I would
> stay
> >    away from making a "deal" or explicitly recommending one particular
> >    commercial publisher.
>
> BTW -- have you looked into some Zenodo API to be able to modify the
> record automagically?  then may be for each release the order of authors
> could be generated automagically e.g. by sorting according to some
> metric since previous release (as bad as # of commits and/or lines
> of code touched), followed by the rest of the authors in the order as in
> the previous release.   So the order would then be quite dynamic... may
> be the last X contributors (seniors) could be selected from those based
> on overall (not just between releases) value of the metric, also
> joggling/looping through the releases.
>
> not an ideal, but imho viable way... what do you think?
>
Yup - this exactly what we are planning to do. IT did require some manual
curation (we have over 100 contributors) to figure out real names,
affiliations and ORCID for everyone.

Best,
Chris

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